Performed by pianist Miki Sawada
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This piece is based on a shape-note song by the same title from the "Northern Harmony" collection. Written in 1948, the words are about the peace that comes only in the afterlife. I chose to write this piece based on the paradox that all is well here and now, and all is also not well, which I illustrate using two tonal centers. There is also a chorale-like moment in the middle which is a distilled version of the original shape-note melody.